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...automatic teller machine, the U.S. Postal Service stamp machine, the coin-operated copy machine, the credit-card-operated fax machine, the Harvard Student Agencies film developing drop-off box, the sweet shop's candy and the newsstand's periodicals have not yet arrived, but should be in place within the next few weeks, according to Loker officials...
Displaying a mechanical mystery bolted to the top of a bookshelf in his Science Center office, Diaconis explains that the machine eliminates the chance element in coin tossing...
...think that coin tossing isn't random, it's physics," he says. "You can show that a very slight change in how you flip it makes for the difference between heads and tails...
...sample tosses reveal something amiss in the machine built by the physics lab. The coin, which is supposed to come up heads every time, repeatedly turns tails...
...Angeles Times last summer that Quebeckers would be trapped like "lobsters in a pot" once they voted "Yes" to his packed question, further throwing into doubt his sincerity in negotiating with the rest of Canada. I think he just wanted to mint his face on a new Quebec-franc coin. He'd have been the founder of a new nation, after...